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The man accused of beating his four-year-old stepson to death sent a number of disturbing text messages to his wife - and mother of the boy - about 'breaking his ego' and referring to him as a 'pit bull'.

A preliminary hearing is underway for Nathan Sloop, 34. He and his wife Stephanie, 30, are accused in the shocking and brutal murder of her son Ethan Stacy, whose body was found in a shallow grave in the mountains on May 11, 2010.

His face was beaten beyond recognition with a hammer, his body was burned and dog food was sprinkled over him.

'I told you we had a pit bull on our hands, but they learn,' Sloop messaged Stephanie on May 3, 2010.

'Just like Mommy LOL,' she replied.
'I told you we had a pit bull on our hands...I told you we had to break his ego. But they learn'

'I told you we had to break his ego,' Sloop texted.

Then on May 5 she wrote: 'He is broke that's for sure.'

Sloop replied they 'had to figure out how to keep him in his room'.

Both face capital murder and other charges in the boy's death.

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against Sloop.

In addition to capital murder, the defendant also faces charges of obstructing justice and intentionally inflicting serious injury on a child, and desecration of a dead body

Ethan Stacy died 10 days after his arrival to Utah from his birth father's home across country. The birth father, Joe G. Stacy, of Tazewell, Virginia, has said he was forced to give up Ethan during the summer as part of a divorce and custody battle.

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